Category: FEATURED
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Resources meet volunteers: Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, Friedell Committee for Health System Transformation merge
Ben Chandler, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, at a Dec. 3 luncheon announcing a merger with the Friedell Committee. — By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health...
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The best defense against the flu is a vaccine, but many don’t get vaccinated because of persistent myths – all debunked here
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Health officials encourage everyone six months and older to get a flu shot every year, because it’s your best defense when it comes to...
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Deadline to sign up for health insurance on Healthcare.gov is Dec. 15, but most who qualify didn’t know that last month
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With just two weeks left to sign up for federally subsidized health insurance for 2019, time is running out. The deadline for open enrollment...
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Among the 50 states, Kentucky, which is 26th in population, ranked fourth in the death rate from drug overdoses in 2017
Kentucky had the fourth highest rate of drug overdoses among the states in 2017, fifth when the District of Columbia is added to the list, according to a new report from the...
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‘It’s not about losing coverage, it’s about having fewer members enrolled in Medicaid,’ state health secretary says of new plan
Health Secretary Adam Meier and Deputy Health Secretary Kristi Putnam speaking about the state’s new Medicaid plan, Kentucky HEALTH — By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The administration of Gov....
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Romaine lettuce is OK to eat unless it was grown in the Central Coast region of California, federal agencies say
After urging Americans not to eat any romaine lettuce, two federal agencies have limited their warning to lettuce grown in the Central Coast region of California. The Centers for Disease...
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Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise, even as funding to prevent and treat them is declining
Health officials are worried about this strain of gonorrhea that resists antibiotics. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo) — “Health officials are tracking record-breaking rates of sexually transmitted disease,...
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Kentucky has a high premature birth rate, but two programs are reducing it; one stresses home visitations; the other uses data analysis
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News One in nine Kentucky babies are born prematurely, one of the nation’s highest rates – so high that the March of Dimes gave the state a...
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Federal officials re-approve state’s plan for changes in Medicaid; gradual rollout could start April 1, but more litigation looks likely
Gov. Matt Bevin welcomed President Trump to Lexington on Oct. 13. (Photo by James Crisp for the Courier Journal) — By Al Cross Kentucky Health News Federal health officials have again...
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Ky. has 78 confirmed flu cases and 2 deaths from it this season; there’s no cure, so officials advise shots for all over 6 months old
Kentucky is one of three states under an influenza threat defined as “regional,” with confirmed cases in 11 of the state’s 17 regions. During the 2018-19 flu season, Kentucky has...